• TWAS-ARO 8th Annual Meeting "The Role of Science, Engineering and Technology in Achieving Sustainable Human Development in the Arab Region"
• Science Supercourse
• Bilateral Exchange of Academics (WAP)
• 2013 EOL Rubenstein Fellows Program
• GESP-Mobility Grant Program for German Egyptian Research Teams

TWAS-ARO 8th Annual Meeting "The Role of Science, Engineering and Technology in Achieving Sustainable Human Development in the Arab Region"
30 - 31 December 2012 

The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World's Arab Regional Office (TWAS-ARO) will hold its 8th Annual Meeting, 30-31 December 2012, at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina. The theme this year is "The Role of Science, Engineering and Technology in Achieving Sustainable Human Development in the Arab Region".

The Meeting will be preceded by an inter-disciplinary forum on sustainable human development. It intends to bring together TWAS-ARO members and young affiliates, along with other distinguished speakers, to tackle several issues related to the role of science, engineering and technology in achieving sustainable human development. It also aims at raising the awareness to the importance of sustainable development, and identifying available alternative solutions to problems of sustainability in the Arab region.

Registration deadline: 1 December 2012.

For registration and more information, please visit: http://www.bibalex.org/CSSP/Event/Event.aspx?ID=242

Science Supercourse 

Science Supercourse (SSC) is a project jointly coordinated by Ismail Serageldin, Director of the Library of Alexandria, and Ronald Laporte, Director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Disease Monitoring and Telecommunications at the University of Pittsburgh.

This effort was designed to improve information sharing among professionals and educators in four major fields of science: public health, agriculture, computer engineering, and environment. Lectures are shared in PowerPoint format to empower educators around the world.

 Get Involved!

The SSC is based on involving the community and encouraging professors and experts to participate by adding their own lectures to the website for the benefit of students and teachers everywhere.

 If you are a Professor of Agriculture, Computer Engineering, Health or Environmental Health, be part of the SSC and upload your lectures.

To view the lectures and join the team, please follow the link: http://ssc.bibalex.org

For any suggestion, please E-mail: ssc@bibalex.org

Bilateral Exchange of Academics (WAP)

Deadline for Application:  11 November 2012.

Implementation of mutual teaching and research projects between German and Egyptian scientists.

Applications are open to all PhD holders working at Egyptian universities or research institutions, who have a convincing and well-planned research project to be completed during the stay in Germany.
The stays range from 1 to 3 months and cannot be extended.

For more information, please visit: http://www.bibalex.org/cssp/opportunities/opportunities.aspx#1

2013 EOL Rubenstein Fellows Program

Deadline for Application:  15 November 2012.

Over the past four years the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) has grown to become one of the world's largest aggregators of biodiversity information. Now featuring information on over one million taxa, EOL brings together trusted content from 219 scholarly content partners, including 57 current and former Rubenstein Fellows.

This year, EOL is inviting proposals supporting the use of EOL in biological research - it is time to see what the wealth of information in EOL can do.

This year's call for proposals is to extract data from the EOL collection and advance the corresponding inquiry in one or several of these "Wishes for Research". These "Big Data" questions have not previously been tractable because the information needed to address them was simply not accessible.

For more information, please visit: http://www.bibalex.org/cssp/opportunities/opportunities.aspx#1

GESP-Mobility Grant Program for German Egyptian Research Teams

Deadline for Application:  15 December 2012.

The German Egyptian Scientific Projects (GESP) is a fund that supports the exchange of scientific visits between Egyptian and German research teams. This program is co-financed by the Science and Technology Development Fund in Egypt (STDF) and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in Germany.

For more information, please visit: http://www.bibalex.org/cssp/opportunities/opportunities.aspx#1